Long Cra Poems

We’re on October break, which is a 6-day weekend. For the last two weeks, everyone’s been making plans.
“What do you think of Cancún?” Sunny’d asked me.
“The only people going to Mexico are on the cheap...

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I almost lost my balance,
But you rescued me before I fell flat down on the floor
We, in unison, dance
You are the harmony of my symphony...your empathy is what I adore
You are someone I was looking...

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$hawty Got $wag

Shawty got swag,
Shawty mad dope.
Face all cheesin’,
She real turned up.
Goin’ to da club,
She steppin' wit her peeps,
Lookin’ so ratchet,
She’s straight up hoochie.

No racks in her pocket,
No stacks in her wallet,
But she all into...

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that will neither revolutionize whorled wide web,
   nor pollinate like fecund human loam
viz - it mine neurological nuances here
   within Schwenksville, Pennsylvania,

   my present home,
town pulsating with
  ...

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In the stillness of the night when it rains
Haven’t you listened to a funny chorus?
Cra…. Cra… Cra…. it goes on rough n’ raucous,
A ‘music’ coming down to us through the air porous.
   ...

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Twelve midnight on a chilly dark night,
Dead silent, Eerie, and unsettling.

Everyone, of the small town of Serene
Are partying in the town hall.
A Halloween Masquerade Party.
Merlin the cat beams
When he saw the screen door swing open,
Rushes...

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I was on a plantain branch
Cra cra… Cra cra.. Craa..
She put her bangles on a rock
Glimpse of gold, shined my eyes
I took it and flew back home.

A cry of fury trembling hut,
I wonder why she...

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Crack!
It was the first time I'd heard
The sound
So hauntingly beautiful
So painfully pleasing
It felt like 
My lungs were giving out
Like towers of melodramatic dust
Crack! Crack!
The faults spread out all over
A mosaic birthed in the process
Mismatched pieces
Of...

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My toughest tests are over,
and now that things have slowed,
I find myself quickly sliding,
into Christmas vacation mode.

IIt’s a shame you’re not with us,
everywhere we go,
because we could pretend,
that there was mistletoe.

A chorus, In the food...

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Fireworks bleed through skies
As I light up a match
Yes, fire works for me

Fireworks project bliss
As I start wars in my head
My mad, silent wars

Fire works for me, dad
As my eyes crave to see fire
My passion...

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